Biography
Craig Parkinson (born March 11, 1976) is a British actor. He played Shaun in the E4 television series Misfits and the twins Jimmy and Johnny Kray in the ITV television series Whitechapel. He has also starred in several independent films including Control, The Unloved, and Four Lions.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Person of Interest
2024
as The Man
A late night mini-cab driver's feeling paranoid and twitchy in this contemporary London noir starring Asim Chaudhry. Is sleep deprivation playing tric...
Boybands Forever
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the singing, smiles and double denim was blood, sweat and tears. Heartthrobs from Take That to Westlife and 911 share tales of success, adorati...
Partygate
2023
as Lee Caine
Karaoke, suitcases of wine, ambushing cake... this factual drama tells the story of Covid from inside 10 Downing Street as staff kicked back at lockdo...
Life and Death in the Warehouse
2022
as Danny
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, puttin...
Wild Rose
2019
as Alan
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018
as Peter Butler
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Killed By My Debt
2018
as The Bailiff
In January 2015, Jerome Rogers, a popular nineteen year old from a council estate, finally got what he’d been working for – a new motorbike and his fi...
The Flag
2016
as The Don
Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning...
Jet Trash
2016
as Marlowe
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautif...
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Inspector Fry
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do ...
The Scandalous Lady W
2015
as Mr Wallace, QC
A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Capt...
When the Lights Went Out
2012
as Brian
Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family dis...
Ghosted
2011
as Clay
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms ...
Excluded
2010
Ian, a newly qualified teacher, comes up against Mark, a troubled and disruptive pupil who teachers want to see excluded from school. Against the odds...
Brighton Rock
2010
as Cubitt
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
SoulBoy
2010
as Alan
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser J...
Four Lions
2010
as Matt
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and t...
Desert Flower
2009
as Neil
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is n...
The Unloved
2009
as Ben
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow he...
The Taxidermist
2009
as The Taxidermist
A shop worker discovers how far she will go for love when the Taxidermist next door is threatened with eviction.
The Other Man
2008
as George
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Mrs In-Betweeny
2008
as Neil
After the death of their parents, three children are put into the care of their aunt Brandon - unaware of the fact she is a transgender woman. Over ti...
Virgin Territory
2007
as Tindaro
In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty ad...
Control
2007
as Tony Wilson
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 198...
Tooth
2004
as Store Cashier
Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies ...